The Potential for Prevention of the Major Adult Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract

This chapter deals with two aspects of the potential for prevention of cardiovascular disease: first, scientific data documenting this potential, emphasizing not high risk, but low risk; and second, public policy issues that relate to achievement of the potential for prevention. There are two aspects to the potential for prevention: one, the scientific foundation, the other, the comprehension of this by political leaders, the public, and the health professions, resulting in the translation of that potential into public policy and finally the implementation of that public policy [1].

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